The president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, Brad Smith, argued this week before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee that current laws about government access to personal data are woefully antiquated.
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Brad Smith, Microsoft president and chief legal officer, responds to a question regarding a legal case between Apple and the U.S. government as part of testimony before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing titled International Conflicts of Law Concerning Cross Border Data Flow and Law Enforcement Requests.
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The Justice Department faced withering criticism from House lawmakers at a Thursday hearing for its opposition to Microsoft-backed legislation aimed at limiting the geographical scope of a U.S. warrant.
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Today I appeared as a witness before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Hearing on “International Conflicts of Law and their Implications for Cross Border Data Requests by Law Enforcement.”
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Today I appeared as a witness before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Hearing on “International Conflicts of Law and their Implications for Cross Border Data Requests by Law Enforcement.”
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Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith spoke to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today, and he brought an antique piece of technology to prove his point.
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Microsoft is planning to weigh in on Apple’s behalf in its legal battle with the US government over access to an encrypted iPhone, a senior executive at the software company said on Thursday.
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Silicon Valley is taking on Washington, D.C. The nation’s technology giants, including Microsoft and Amazon.com, appear to be banding together with Apple in the iPhone maker’s fight against a federal court order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino attack in which 14 people died.
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Microsoft Corp. will file an amicus brief next week to support Apple Inc. in its fight with the U.S. government over unlocking a terrorist’s iPhone, President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said at a congressional hearing Thursday to discuss the need for new legislation to govern privacy.
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Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said at a congressional hearing on Thursday that his company "wholeheartedly" supports Apple's refusal to assist the FBI in unlocking a terrorist's iPhone. “We at Microsoft support Apple and will be filing an amicus brief next week,” he said.
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Last week, the European Commission and the U.S. concluded tough negotiations to reach an important new agreement regarding cross-border data transfers, the so-called “E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield,” which replaces the 15-year-old Safe Harbor compact. We also learned the U.S. and the U.K. began negotiations regarding a new data-sharing agreement that shows great promise to establish a basis for other like-minded democracies to develop a more modern and workable legal framework for government access to citizens’ data.
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On December 15, 2014, a coalition of business, media, civil society and academic experts joined Microsoft in raising concerns about privacy protections for information stored in the cloud.
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Microsoft president Brad Smith joined Quest Means Business after the company said it would build data centers in Europe to protect customer privacy
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When people who care about technology look back at the year 2015, they will remember October as the month when the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor collapsed. An international legal agreement that has been in place for 15 years was invalidated in a single day.
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We appreciate that some of our customers have questions about the impact of the ruling today by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) about the EU – US Safe Harbor Framework. In particular some customers may ask if this means that they will no longer be able to transfer their customer data from the European...
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This is an important week for privacy in the nation’s capital. With a hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, another focus on privacy begins in earnest.
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This is the second part of my Q&A with Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith over the company’s legal battle with the U.S. Department of Justice over e-mails stored in Ireland. The case raises important questions with respect to the privacy of digital communications and the future of cloud computing.
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In light of the significance of this case for U.S. consumers and businesses, and the impact that its outcome could have on the privacy of digital communications, Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel for Microsoft, took the time to answer some questions regarding the case and what its outcome might mean.
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Where is your data? We talk about “the cloud” as if it’s something mystical or unfathomable, but that data is stored in a real place. I suppose calling it “the cloud” is catchier than “offsite server,” but that’s really all that it means. Every Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, and AOL e-mail is saved in some temperature-controlled, secure data center somewhere in the world.
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With more than two billion devices connected to the cloud every day, trust in the cloud is critical. But concerns about government surveillance and the rise of cybercrime have eroded people’s trust in the technologies they depend on to store and share information. At Microsoft, we work to protect customer data in our cloud to...
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